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0 AD has already been released, in the sense that you can download it now.

The game looked great before GLSL was added. There's no reason to add it until you actually have a use for it. They must have hit some limitation of the fixed function pipeline, at which point it becomes worth the effort to add GLSL.

One of my pet peeves is people who bash an engine because it doesn't support their favorite acronym.

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0 AD has already been released, in the sense that you can download it now.

The game looked great before GLSL was added. There's no reason to add it until you actually have a use for it. They must have hit some limitation of the fixed function pipeline, at which point it becomes worth the effort to add GLSL.

One of my pet peeves is people who bash an engine because it doesn't support their favorite acronym.

One of my pet peeves is people who use pejorative semantics ("acronym") as a means to deflect from the obvious fact that shaders are long overdue for any self respecting desktop 3D game. No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig it's still a pig.

NOTE: I'm not dismissing the usefulness of GLSL, but if you don't need it, you don't need it.

People in Nazi germany also lived well but it doesn't mean they were doing right, half-truths are the best friends of the demagogs.
You still pretend you don't get it? Or will you throw again a few silly pictures in and call names? If you're so sensible to a simple
fact that it's a shame not using shaders in 3D games you shouldn't argue, because it's your problem.